Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of Psychology, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
In late Fall 2023 or Spring 2024, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Dissertation: Conceptualization of Faculty Work Motivation: Overcoming the Impasse, Julie Nikolaeva Thompson
Thesis: Associations Between Drinking, Condom Use Resistance, and Condom Use Among College Students, Caitlin B. Turner
Thesis: Effects of Focal on Driver Calibration of Attention Maintenance Performance Using Normalized Difference and Brier Scores, James Richard Unverricht
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dissertation: Word Counts in Response to Cognitively Demanding Essay Prompts as Reflections of General Cognitive Ability and Broad Cognitive Abilities, Michael Beaumont Armstrong
Thesis: Detecting Deceptive Impression Management Behaviors in Interviews Using Natural Language Processing, Elena Margaret Lawrence Auer
Dissertation: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder with Comorbid Anxiety/Depression in Adults: Impacts on Neuropsychological Functioning, Cristina Valdivieso Bain
Dissertation: Risk of Unintended Pregnancy in Latina Young Adults: The Effect of Gender Role Beliefs, Acculturation, and Depression, Jessica Block
Thesis: The Association Between Emotional Competencies and E-Cigarette Susceptibility, Laurel Brockenberry
Dissertation: Race, Rejection Sensitivity, and Identity Centrality Among Young Sexual Minority Women, Denise M. Calhoun
Dissertation: The Effects of Selection System Characteristics and Privacy Needs on Procedural Justice Perceptions: An Investigation of Social Networking Data in Employee Selection, Rachel C. Callan
Dissertation: Predicting Score Change: An Empirical Investigation of Cheating on Unproctored Employment Tests, Katelyn J. Cavanaugh
Thesis: The Effects of Rating Source, Rating Target, and Job Position on Ratings of Perceived Training Needs, Phillip Joseph Dillulio
Thesis: Examining the Role of Behavioral Inhibition in Harsh Parenting Preferences: An Analog Study, Kelsey T. Ellis
Thesis: The Effects of Automation Transparency and Ethical Outcomes on User Trust and Blame Towards Fully Autonomous Vehicles, Nathan Andrew Hatfield
Dissertation: A Single Campus Study of the Green Dot Bystander Intervention Program, Brittany F. Hollis
Thesis: Grateful Beneficiaries and Proud Benefactors: A Moderated Mediation Model Relating Supervisors' Gratitude Expression to Employees' Organizational Citizenship Behavior, William Peter Jimenez
Dissertation: Latent Class Analysis of Malingering Classifications Using Performance and Symptom Validity Measures in a Civil Forensic Setting, Willie Floyd McBride III
Dissertation: Testing a Model of Servant Leadership's Influence on Follower Outcomes: Exploring Mediation Effects of Follower Trust and Prosocial Identity, Dante P. Myers
Dissertation: Examining the Measurement Invariance of the MMPI-A-RF Externalizing Scales Across Korean and American Adolescent Normative Samples, Kristoffer Yong Park
Thesis: Incivility as a Barrier to Embeddedness Among Engineering Students: Does Gender Matter?, Katelyn R. Reynoldson
Dissertation: Bisexuality and Motherhood: An Investigation of Psychological Distress, Parenting Efficacy, and Self Esteem Through Identity Theory, Laurin B. Roberts
Thesis: Testing the Efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in Treating Depression in Patients with Cognitive Impairment, Daniel Robert Schaffer
Thesis: The Effects of Risky Alcohol Use and Type of Hook Up Behaviors on the Relationship Between Hooking Up to Cope and Negative Affect, Leah E. Stevens
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Dissertation: Threat or Challenge? Intensified Job Demands and the Moderating Effect of Differentiated Transformational Leadership, Benjamin Bass
Dissertation: The Effects of Delay and Probabilistic Discounting on Green Consumerism, Blake J. Bent
Dissertation: Creativity and Innovation Through the Job Demands-Resources Model, Nathan Haugejorde Bjornberg
Dissertation: Sense of Belonging, Emotion Regulation, Perceived Social Support and Mental Health among College Students, Sara Bock Davis
Thesis: The Effect of Interruptions During a Laparoscopy Skills Training Task, Brandon Allan Fluegel
Thesis: The Relationship of Early Class Start Times on Sleepiness and Driving Behaviors in an Emerging Adult Population, Jessica L. Fry
Dissertation: Protective Factors Against Peer and Social Media Sex Messages: The Moderating Role of Parental Influences on African American Emerging Adult Students' Sexual Behaviors, Jacqueline Eunice Haywood
Thesis: Initial Development and Validation of the Deliberate Denial of Disordered Eating Behaviors Scale, Lindsay Marie Howard
Dissertation: The Effect of Narrative Feedback on the Learning and Transfer of Complex Communication Skills, Rebecca A. Kennedy
Thesis: Eye Tracking as a Control Interface for Tele-Operation During a Visual Search Task, Jeffrey Neal Levy
Dissertation: Supervisor and Subordinate Perceptions of Leader-Member Exchange: Examining Idiosyncratic Deals and Work-Family Experiences in a Moderated Mediation Model, Michael L. Litano
Thesis: Examining Body-Focused Self-Improvement and Self-Evaluation Social Comparisons on Exercise in Young Adult Women Using Ecological Momentary Assessment, Rachel I. MacIntyre
Thesis: Predictive Value of ADHD Symptomatology on Motives and Outcomes of Stimulant Misuse, Alexander Laszlo Peterkin
Thesis: Affective Factors Explaining the Association Between Depressive Functioning and Alcohol Outcomes, Peter D. Preonas
Thesis: Sexuality and the Autism Spectrum: Implications for Individuals with the Broad Autism Phenotype, Lydia Ruth Qualls
Dissertation: Development and Test of a Theory of Applicant Reactions to Branched Situational Judgment Tests, Craig Matthew Reddock
Thesis: Adult Sexual Abuse, Disordered Eating Behaviors, and Substance Abuse: The Role of Internalized Shame and Maladaptive Coping Strategies, Bilgé Özgé Yilmaz
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Thesis: Relationship Satisfaction and Coparenting over the Transition to Parenthood: Depression, Division of Labor, and Child Temperament as Moderators, Jessica Block
Dissertation: Buffering the Associations Between Negative Mood States and the Incentive Salience of Alcohol: A Brief Mindfulness Induction, Adrian J. Bravo
Thesis: Prejudice Toward Atheists in the United States as Related to Perceived Prevalence, Wanda D. Brooks
Thesis: A Taxonomy of Effective Leader Behaviors in the Construction Industry, Enrique Leonardo Cabrera-Caban
Dissertation: Caffeinated Alcohol Use in a Daily Context, Ashley N. Carmichael
Dissertation: The Effects of Alarm System Errors on Dependence: Moderated Mediation of Trust With and Without Risk, Eric T. Chancey
Dissertation: Cognitive Performance as A Function of Right-Sided, Low-Frequency rTMS Administration Using CNS Vital Signs, Alexis J. Chappell
Thesis: Game-Framing Cognitive Assessments to Improve Applicant Perceptions, Andrew Burnett Collmus
Thesis: The Role of Harm, Detectability, and Knowledge of HIV Non-Disclosure Laws in Affecting Punishment Recommendations for HIV Law Violators, Christina Marie Dodson
Thesis: Effects of Auditory Vection Speed and Directional Congruence on Perceptions of Visual Vection, Isabella Alexis Gagliano
Thesis: Fake It Until You Make It? Female Leaders’ Emotional Expression Management and Subordinates’ Gender Stereotypes, Rebecca C. Garden
Thesis: Relationship Investment and Unwanted Pursuit: An Experimental Study, Phoebe Tabb Hitson
Thesis: The Relationship Between Resilience, Attachment, and Emotional Coping Styles, Jennika K. Jenkins
Dissertation: An Etiological Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Female OEF/OIF/OND Veterans: Adding Military Sexual Trauma as a Risk Factor, Erin Doty Kurtz
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Trauma-Related Shame, Disordered Behaviors, and Contextual Factors of Sexual Trauma Beyond Trait-Shame and Sex-Guilt, Michele Laaksonen
Dissertation: Understanding the Determinants of Parental Decision-Making and Harsh Parenting Behavior, Ralitsa Stoyneva Maduro
Dissertation: Multiple Imputation of Missing Data in Structural Equation Models with Mediators and Moderators Using Gradient Boosted Machine Learning, Robert J. Milletich II
Thesis: Measuring Team Collaboration and Effects of Target Guidance in a Visual Search Task, Christopher Morley
Dissertation: Executive Dysfunction as a Trait Marker for Depression in Children and Adolescents, Emily Oettinger
Thesis: Acculturation and Enculturation, Perception of Depressive Symptoms, and Help-Seeking Behaviors among Korean Americans, Kristoffer Park
Dissertation: Psychometric Functioning of The MMPI-A Restructured Form VRIN-R, TRIN-R, CRIN, and Cannot Say Scales with Varying Degrees of Randomness, Acquiescence, Counter-Acquiescence, and Omitted Items, Amy C. Pitta
Thesis: Association Between Combat, Morally Injurious Experiences, Spiritual Injury, and Alcohol Use Among Active Duty Military Personnel and Veterans, Allison T. Robbins
Dissertation: Examining Attitudes, Norms, and Control Toward Safety Behaviors as Mediators in the Leadership-Safety Motivation Relationship, Gargi Sawhney
Thesis: Effects of Visibility and Alarm Modality on Workload, Trust in Automation, Situation Awareness, and Driver Performance, Smruti J. Shah
Dissertation: A Daily Diary Investigation of Behavioral Disinhibition and Alcohol-related Aggression, Brynn Elizabeth Sheehan
Thesis: Environmental Context Effects on Impulsivity and Subjective Craving in Caffeinated Alcohol Users, Amy L. Stamates
Dissertation: Reconceptualizing Women's STEM Experiences: Building a Theory of Positive Marginality, Valerie N. Streets
Dissertation: Do Trait Positive and Trait Negative Affect Predict Progress and Discharge Outcomes in an Inpatient Medical Rehabilitation Population, Valerie Dominique Ward
Dissertation: Body Image and Quality of Life Among Postsurgical Bariatric Patients, Amy Leigh White
Dissertation: Life After an Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: A Comparison of Stress and Coping Profiles of African American and Caucasian Caregivers, Takeshia Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: The Effects of Mental Models and Expertise on Running Memory and Clinical Handoff Effectiveness, Brittany Lee Anderson-Montoya
Thesis: An Evaluation of Game Fiction-Enhanced Training: Using Narrative to Improve Trainee Reactions and Learning, Michael Beaumont Armstrong
Thesis: Comparing Implicit and Explicit Measures of Sex Guilt in Predicting Sexual Behavior, Delaram Asadzadeh Totonchi
Thesis: Categorizing Fetal Heart Rate Variability with and without Visual Aids, Amanda Jane Ashdown
Dissertation: Moderating Effects of Coping Self-Efficacy and Coping Diversity in the Stress Health Relationship in African American College Students, Carol Frances Bonner
Dissertation: Examining the Measurement Invariance of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form Internalizing Specific Problem Scales in African- American and Caucasian Men, Megan Anne Brokenbourgh
Dissertation: Employee Behavioral Intention and Technology Use: Mediating Processes and Individual Difference Moderators, Robert Conrad Brusso
Thesis: Relationship Decision-Making as a Mediator between Regret, Autonomy, and Two Forms of Relationship Commitment: Dedication and Constraint, Ashley Fehr
Dissertation: The Association of Racial Identity and Locus of Control With Eating Attitudes and Obesity in African American College Women, Jamie Grisham
Dissertation: Donepezil’s Effect on Cardiac Function in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease through an In Vivo, Non Invasive Measure of Cardiac Autonomic Function, Lewis P. Hackett
Thesis: The Effects of Task Criticality and Target Modality on a Simulated Battlefield Search Task, Julie A. Hanson
Thesis: Risk Factors for Military Sexual Trauma: Pre-Military Trauma, Psychological Adjustment, Combat Exposure, and Alcohol Use at the Time of the Trauma, Brittany Hollis
Dissertation: Motivation, Marital Quality, Maternal Gatekeeping, Breadwinning, and Father Identity: Models Of Biological Fathers’ And Stepfathers’ Involvement In Childcare, Jessica E. Ladage
Thesis: Support for Gestalt Versus Business-As-Usual Theories of Insight Depends on Operational Definition of Insight, Kimberly D. Lee
Dissertation: A Daily Diary Investigation of Discrimination and Binge Eating Among Lesbian Women, Tyler Mason
Dissertation: Effects of Varying Degrees of Fixed and Random Responding on the Validity of Score Interpretation for the SP and PSY-5 Scales of the MMPI-2-RF, Joseph Brooks Minifie
Thesis: The Differential Effect of Anticipated Work-Family Conflict on the STEM Major Embeddedness of Men and Women, Dante P. Myers
Thesis: Examining the Factors Related to Bisexual Individuals' Preference for Future Parenting Partner, Laurin Beth Roberts
Dissertation: PTSD Symptom Severity and Neurocognitive Performance as a Function of Combined TMS and Imaginal Exposure in OIF/OEF Combat Veterans with Treatment Resistant PTSD, Katharine Seagly
Thesis: Assessing the Effectiveness of an Interval Estimation and a Visual-Spatial Secondary Task as Measures of Mental Workload During Laparoscopy, Levi Parker Warvel
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Thesis: Effects of Simultaneous Alarms on Resolution Heuristics, Amanda C. Allen
Thesis: Default Effects in the Endorsement of Environmental Policies, Blake J. Bent
Thesis: Mutual Performance Monitoring in Virtual Teams, Nathan Haugejorde Bjornberg
Dissertation: Applying Leadership Theory to the Work-Family Interface: Examining the Interactive Effects of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors and Leader-Member Exchange Quality, Heather M. Bolen
Thesis: The Effects of Religious Coping and Drinking to Cope on the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Alcohol-Related Problems, Adrian J. Bravo
Dissertation: Health Promotion in Multiple Domains: Capitalizing on the Spillover Effect, Gabrielle Maria D'Lima
Dissertation: Interrelationships Between Sensation Seeking and Psychopathy, Casey S. Iwai
Thesis: The Role of Leader Support for Safety Within the Leader Justice-Safety Performance Relationship, Benjamin R. Kaufman
Thesis: Effects of Parental Alcoholism and Trauma Exposure on Depressive Symptoms: A Path Model with Resilience, Social Support, and Family Satisfaction, Erin Doty Kurtz
Dissertation: The Influence of Affective Valence and Task Uncertainty on Visual Threat Detection and Automation Use, Rachel R. Phillips